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@Hadass 💪💪💪

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"I want," the man said to the art robot, and then described an image in some detail.
"Certainly," said the art robot. A printout came out of its chest.
"Thank y- Hey! What's this?"
"A list of artists who make images of the kind you describe, and who are accepting commissions."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

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RT @segal_eran
Our new @Cell_Metabolism paper: Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) of 7,000 non-diabetics, the largest such cohort, and the first map of CGM-derived reference values in healthy people

Data is part of the Human Phenotype Project, and accessible here: http://humanphenotypeproject.org >>>

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Had to make the difficult decision to let a student go this month. There have been issues with them playing loud music in the hallway, not training other students properly, lack of communication with me, leaving the lab space a mess, not following protocols and not coming into work when they knew I was away. It is never fun to be the bad guy, but the negative impacts on other lab members and disrespect was too much. #academia

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Every once in a while a top-notch observation disguised as a meme comes around, and I think this is one.

A meme featuring three frames from the film Inception (2010), showing Leonardo DiCaprio talking with Cillian Murphy. In the first, LD says "Guns aren't the problem. People are the problem." In the second, CM says, "Then why do you want the problem to have guns?" Like many memes, the third frame has no dialog, because LD has no response.

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I think what scares me the most about the ”AI” tools that have been hyped over the past few months is that they all appear to emphasise the elimination of thinking.

All while manufacturers falsely claim that this is what is going on inside the machine.

As if the time and effort between information retrieval and making sense of it is inconsequential to the growth of the human mind and the validity of the end result.

As if thinking is a nuisance.

#AIHype #AIEthics #DigitalEthics

Illustration of a book with one arrow labelled number 1 that points to a sheet of paper with 5 bullet points, and a second arrow labelled number 2 that points to a roll of toilet paper.

The text underneath reads: The efficiency boom of 2023: Once the AI had summarised a book in five bullet points the book could be recycled as toilet paper.

@teadrinker good luck! Remember that you still need a good sleep (otherwise this plan won’t work) so perhaps go to sleep earlier. It may take a few days to adjust to a new schedule (and it may not work, so be forgiving with yourself).

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Adding #altText to all images and tables in my #phd. A slow but essential task. Not long until I submit! Whoop

Two pencils on grid paper with the text: accessibility is import. Adding alt text to 125 images and 20 tables

@yasha I’m sorry for your loss. Taking the time to grieve is necesary. So yes, this sounds like a productive day.

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Okay, seems to me that a good *plan* for dealing with twitter (as opposed to all the "if you use twitter you're literally a Nazi" BS that people *here* like to spew)

One thing I'm seeing over there is the almost certainly artificial boosting of e.g. "Black folks who think Kamala Harris does nothing"

That's a good direct place to start -- Over at twitter you are being *lied to*. by means of algorithms. Get them over here.

#blackfedi #blackmastodon #mastodon

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Here, btw, is a photo of that first known English language Haggadah, printed by Alexander Alexander in 1770, and held by the National Library and Archives of Canada. You can see the wine stains on the pages. #Haggadah #Passover #Pesach #Seder #London #Ottawa #yow #LowyCollection #Jewish #Yiddishkeit #JewishHistory #GeorgeIII

A vintage Haggadah, the Seder service, published in London in 1770. The English title page reads: « Ceremonies and Prayers which are used and read by all the families, in all houses of the ISRAELITES the two first Nights of Passover

@Hadass NICE!!

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The doors were locked.

The teachers were armed.

TN expanded firearm access.

The police arrived in minutes.

Covenant school had everything that MAGA GOP assured us prevents & stops mass shootings. And 3 babies & 3 adults were murdered in seconds.😳

IT’S—THE—GUNS
#GunReformNow

Tennessean headline confirming teachers were armed at Covenant

@lborrell thank you for this! We have been getting requests from reviewers to refer to participants form the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos as Latinx multiple times, I think I should start citing this paper on the get go (first submitted version).

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Yay! During April there is a 20% OFF everything at my plublisher’s!! You may want to take advantage of that for my books:

https://www.routledge.com/authors/i2417-jesus-rogel-salazar

#DataScience #Python #Statistics #DataViz

@jorijn I also read this chapter, and one of the few things I remember is the author encouraging the reader to fall asleep, if they feel like it, when reading the book.

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And another chapter done! Learn about build automation using {targets}

If you’re interested in upping your data science game and build reproducible analytical pipelines, give my book a read, it’s free:

https://raps-with-r.dev

Comments more than welcome! #RStats #DataScience

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Another metaphor I'm curious about: "AI" as "fuel" or "power" --- when people talk about "AI-powered technology" or "AI that fuels your creativity/curiosity". This seems to suggest that the AI is autonomously producing something...

Where are my metaphor theorists at?

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Reading about #ChatGPT plug-ins and wondering why this is framed as plug-ins for #ChatGPT (giving it "capabilities") rather than #ChatGPT as a plug-in to provide a conversational front-end to other services.

Nevermind, I know why: This is #OpenAI yet again trying to sell their text synthesis machine as "an AI".

#MathyMath #AIHype

Screencap: "Though not a perfect analogy, plugins can be “eyes and ears” for language models, giving them access to information that is too recent, too personal, or too specific to be included in the training data. In response to a user’s explicit request, plugins can also enable language models to perform safe, constrained actions on their behalf, increasing the usefulness of the system overall." Source: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins

@JoseEdGomes @WorldImagining but on the other hand, anyone can “self publish” by posting on arXiv or on a blogging platform.

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